I saw him once, but once, and his stern terrible features and harsh voice so terrified my childish fancies, that I hid myself till he had departed, and I have never seen him since, and yet, oh yet, I fear him!" "What is it that thou fearest, love ?" "I know not," she answered; "but if evil approach my mother, it will come from him, and so silently, so unsuspectedly, that none may avoid it.

Nigel, he cannot love my mother! he is a foe to Bruce, a friend of the slaughtered Comyn, and will he not demand a stern account of the deed that she hath done?
will he not seek vengeance?
and oh, will he not, may he not in wrath part thee and me, and thus thy bodings be fulfilled ?" "Agnes, never! The mandate of man shall never part us; the power of man, unless my limbs be chained, shall never sever thee and me.

He that hath never acted a father's part, can have no power on his child.

Thou art mine, my beloved!--mine with thy mother's blessing; and mine thou shalt be--no earthly power shall part us.

Death, death alone can break the links that bind us, and must be of God, though man may seem the cause.
Be comforted, sweet love.